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  • One Hundred Prisoners and a Light Bulb

    by Hans van Ditmarsch, Barteld Kooi ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    A group of 100 prisoners, all together in the prison dining area, are told that they will be all put in isolation cells and then will be interrogated one by one in a room containing a light with an on/off switch. The prisoners may communicate with one another by toggling the light switch (and that is the only way in which they can communicate). The light is initially switched off. There is no ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game-Theoretical Semantics

    Edited by Hans van Ditmarsch, Gabriel Sandu ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book focuses on the game-theoretical semantics and epistemic logic of Jaakko Hintikka.Hintikka was a prodigious and esteemed philosopher and logician, and his death in August 2015 was a huge loss to the philosophical community. This book, whose chapters have been in preparation for several years, is dedicated to the work of Jaako Hintikka, and to his memory.This edited volume consists of 23 ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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    Edited by Syraya Chin-Mu Yang, Duen-Min Deng, Hanti Lin ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume brings together a group of logic-minded philosophers and philosophically oriented logicians to address a diversity of topics on the structural analysis of non-classical logics. It mainly focuses on the construction of different types of models for various non-classical logics of current interest, including modal logics, epistemic logics, dynamic logics, and observational predicate ... Read more

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  • Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society

    Edited by Can Başkent, Lawrence S. Moss, Ramaswamy Ramanujam ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh’s scholarly work. Highlighting the transition in Parikh’s interest from formal languages to natural languages, and how he approached Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, it traces the academic trajectory of a brilliant scholar whose work opened up various new avenues in research.This volume is part of Springer’s book series ... Read more

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  • Truth and Falsehood

    An Inquiry into Generalized Logical Values

    by Yaroslav Shramko, Heinrich Wansing ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The book presents a thoroughly elaborated logical theory of generalized truth-values understood as subsets of some established set of (basic) truth values. After elucidating the importance of the very notion of a truth value in logic and philosophy, we examine some possible ways of generalizing this notion. The useful four-valued logic of first-degree entailment by Nuel Belnap and the notion of a ... Read more

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  • David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems

    Edited by Sven Ove Hansson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The volume analyses and develops David Makinson’s efforts to make classical logic useful outside its most obvious application areas. The book contains chapters that analyse, appraise, or reshape Makinson’s work and chapters that develop themes emerging from his contributions. These are grouped into major areas to which Makinsons has made highly influential contributions and the volume in its ... Read more

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  • Proof, Computation and Agency

    Logic at the Crossroads

    Edited by Johan van Benthem, Amitabha Gupta, Rohit Parikh ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Proof, Computation and Agency: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic and its relationship with other disciplines. As a highlight, several articles pursue an inspiring paradigm called 'social software', which studies patterns of social interaction using techniques from logic and computer science. The book also demonstrates how logic can join forces with game theory and social ... Read more

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  • Dependence Logic

    Theory and Applications

    Edited by Samson Abramsky, Juha Kontinen, Jouko Väänänen, Heribert Vollmer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    In this volume, different aspects of logics for dependence and independence are discussed, including both the logical and computational aspects of dependence logic, and also applications in a number of areas, such as statistics, social choice theory, databases, and computer security. The contributing authors represent leading experts in this relatively new field, each of whom was invited to write ... Read more

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    Edited by Katalin Bimbo ...
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    Logic at the Crossroads

    Edited by Johan van Benthem, Amitabha Gupta, Eric Pacuit ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Games, Norms, and Reasons: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic focusing on its relationships with other disciplines, including new interfaces with rational choice theory, epistemology, game theory and informatics. This book continues a series called "Logic at the Crossroads" whose title reflects a view that the deep insights from the classical phase of mathematical logic ... Read more

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    by Rafal Urbaniak ...
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    This meticulous critical assessment of the ground-breaking work of philosopher Stanislaw Leśniewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of output by one of the master logicians of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The author’s nuanced survey eschews secondary commentary, analyzing Leśniewski's core philosophical views and evaluating the formulations that were to have such a ... Read more

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    by Dave Robinson ...
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    "Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty. It offers detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, especially the very odd ... Read more

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